I always carry plastic bags with me when we are leaving the yard because I am afraid zoey might poop. I buy packages of them the come folded up really small so that fit easily in any pocket (they also make little holders to attach to the leash). Anyways, the worst for me is when zoey goes on the sidewalk on main street. She has done this twice. We only walk her on main street if we are going to pick up take-out for dinner or something, because it is all sidewalk and crowded. Anyways, two times now, zoey has walked in circles around the grass in the yard, trotted through the grass at the park, past the grass at the college and library next door, and then when she his the sidewalk on mainstreet she magically decides she needs to go. It is so mortifying because someone always sees and it's impossible to get is all off a sidewalk. Oh well, I guess a dogs gotta do what a dogs gotta do...